Federal food and health agencies are studying a multi-state epidemic of salmonella infections linked to the eggs of a California Producer who reported 79 people and hospitalized 21.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) informed Friday, that the brown organic and without cage eggs of the August egg company sold to the retailers of Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington and Wyoming should be thrown or returned to the store where they were purchased.
The agency identified eggs with sales dates from March 4, 2025 to June 4, 2025 which were distributed in California and Nevada in retail locations, notably Save Mart, Foodmaxx, Lucky, Smart & Final, Safeway, Raley’s, Food 4 Less and ralphs.
Eggs were also distributed to Walmart locations in California, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois with sales dates from March 4, 2025 to June 19, 2025.
The CDC estimates that Salmonella causes around 1.35 million infections in the United States each year, and the recall is the price of eggs, and their security has become an economic and political problem for the Trump administration after an avian flu epidemic in poultry actions has increased prices.
In March, the Ministry of Justice launched an investigation To find out if producers have conspired to increase prices or hold the offer. The cost of a dozen large eggs reached nearly $ 5 in January, but has since erased.
The investigation would have been at its beginnings and cannot lead to any formal action, according to At the Wall Street Journal.
A guardian report have also found that the concentration of the egg market could contribute to the propagation of the virus originally.
“Bird flu does not fully explain the experience of stickers to consumers in the alley of eggs … Consolidation of companies is a key culprit behind egg prices,” said Amanda Starbuck, principal author of The Water and Water Watch report The economic cost of food monopolies: the rotten oligarchy of eggs.
But egg prices have since dropped, down 12.7% in April, the largest monthly drop since 1984, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Ministry of Agriculture reported In May, the cost of a dozen eggs of large white shells fell to $ 3.30 on average.
Last month, the American secretary of agriculture, Brooke Rollins, praised the price of eggs decreases as a signal of the economic success of Donald Trump.
“When the president was sworn in, the price of eggs had increased by 237% under the last administration,” Rollins told CNN. She had declared that the Trump administration was importing millions of turkey and South Korea eggs to lower prices, According to the hill.
